A new era for Doctor Who dawned as Russell T Davies, the man who
had brought the programme back from oblivion, departed after six years.
He was replaced as executive producer and showrunner by Steven Moffat. Executive producer Julie Gardner also
chose to move on; her replacement as Head of Drama at BBC Wales, Piers Wenger, similarly took over her role on
Doctor Who. In addition, Wenger brought Beth
Willis aboard as the programme's third executive producer. Tracie
Simpson remained as producer, alternating in those duties with former
first assistant director Peter Bennett. In
addition, Patrick Schweitzer -- normally the
show's line producer -- shared Simpson's producer credit on The Vampires Of Venice and Vincent And The Doctor, which were
filmed in Croatia.

In the English village of Leadworth, a young Scottish girl named Amelia
Pond is frightened by a strange crack in her bedroom wall. When the
newly-regenerated Doctor crashlands in her back garden, he discovers
that the crack is actually a fracture in space and time, through which
an alien criminal has escaped. Before the Doctor can recapture Prisoner
Zero, he's forced to leave to stabilise the TARDIS, and accidentally
delays his return by twelve years. Now, with the help of the grown-up
Amy, the Doctor has to deal not only with Prisoner Zero, but with its
ruthless jailers as well.

Two years after defeating Prisoner Zero, the Doctor returns to finally
fulfill his promise to take Amy with him.

Hundreds of years in the future, the population of Britain has fled an
Earth ravaged by solar flares, aboard the mammoth Starship UK.
But the Doctor and Amy discover that something about the enormous vessel
is very wrong. The ship moves even though its engines aren't working,
whole sections are closed off under mysterious circumstances, and the
sinister robotic Smilers punish the disobedient. The Doctor finds
himself assisted by an enigmatic female vigilante, while Amy learns the
truth at the heart of Starship UK... but it's a truth that she
can't bear to remember.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill summons the Doctor and Amy to
Blitz-torn London. The British forces are at their lowest ebb, but a
scientist named Bracewell has come to Churchill with an amazing
invention: powerful miniature tanks he calls “Ironsides”.
The Doctor, however, recognises the Ironsides for what they really are:
the Daleks. With a Nazi bombing run closing in, and Churchill convinced
of the Ironsides' benevolence, the Doctor must learn Bracewell's secret
and uncover the Daleks' plans.

A message left on a museum artefact brings the Doctor to the rescue of
River Song, at a point in time before his first encounter with her, but
after her first meeting with him. River is helping the militant Father
Octavian investigate the Byzantium, a spaceship smuggling a
dormant Weeping Angel. By the time the Doctor, Amy and River catch up to
the vessel, however, it has crashlanded atop a ruined temple, and to
reach it, they must traverse a mortuary labyrinth filled with crumbling
statues. Too late, the Doctor realises that the Weeping Angel is not
alone -- and that he has walked into a trap.

The Doctor escorts Amy and Rory on a date to sixteenth-century Venice.
No sooner have they arrived, however, than they become embroiled in the
mystery surrounding an enigmatic school for young women run by the
powerful Rosanna Calvierri. Those accepted to the school become
mysteriously changed, shunning the daylight and professing not to know
their former acquaintances. The Doctor begins to suspect that there are
vampires on the loose in Venice -- but could the truth be even more
sinister?

Striving to prevent Amy's adventures from breaking up her engagement,
the Doctor invites Rory to join them aboard the TARDIS.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory are confronted by a cryptic figure who calls
himself the Dream Lord. The Dream Lord has caused the three time
travellers to flit back and forth between two different realities -- one
in which they're stranded aboard a crippled TARDIS, the other in which
Amy and Rory have settled down in Leadworth and are about to become
parents. In both cases, the trio face a mortal danger... but they first
have to deduce which is the true reality, or risk becoming trapped in
the dream for the rest of their lives.

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to the tiny Welsh village of
Cwmtaff in the year 2020. There, a drilling project seeks to burrow deep
beneath the surface of the Earth. Strange craters have begun opening up
near the drill site, however, dragging people into the ground -- and Amy
becomes the latest victim. Investigating, the Doctor realises that the
drill has awakened a tribe of Silurians from their aeons-long slumber.
Believing themselves to be under attack, the Silurians are now on a war
footing, preparing an offensive against the human race.

Rory is shot saving the Doctor's life, and is then wiped from existence
by the mysterious cracks in time and space.

At an exhibition of the works of Vincent Van Gogh, the Doctor and Amy
discover a disturbing image hidden in one of his paintings. Travelling
back to Provence in 1890, they discover that Van Gogh is plagued by a
ferocious monster called the Krafayis that only he can see. As the time
travellers struggle to deal with an invisible monster, they must also
navigate the tortured artist's swings of mood, knowing full well that,
within two months, he will have taken his own life.

A strange force affects the TARDIS, stranding the Doctor on modern-day
Earth while Amy is trapped in the rapidly deteriorating time machine.
The Doctor traces the mysterious influence to a seemingly ordinary home
in Colchester, where the mysterious occupant of the top-floor apartment
lures people up the stairs, never to be seen again. Fortunately, the
downstairs tenant, Craig Owens, is advertising for a roommate. The
Doctor answers Craig's ad -- and proceeds to turn the young man's life
upside-down.

A message transmitted down through history draws the Doctor and Amy to
England in AD 102. There they find River Song waiting for them, with a
warning that a legendary prison called the Pandorica, hidden beneath
Stonehenge, is about to open. But the Pandorica is actually a trap set
for the Doctor by a legion of his oldest enemies. And meanwhile, a
mysterious force has seized control of the TARDIS, setting in motion an
explosion which threatens to destroy the entire universe. With the
Doctor imprisoned in the Pandorica for eternity, will silence fall
across all time and space?

Revived by the Doctor's reality reboot, Rory rejoins his new bride, Amy,
and the Doctor in the TARDIS.

Making History

2010 saw almost everything about Doctor Who change. A new
production team was in place behind the cameras, a new regular cast
appeared on television screens, and even elements such as the logo, the
TARDIS console room and the police box shell itself were revamped.
Nonetheless, Doctor Who retained much of its popularity, even as
Moffat pushed the programme in new directions with a storyline
stretching beyond the confines of a single season.

Specials (2010-11): In The Deep
Midwinter

The Production Team

Tracie Simpson and Peter Bennett left Doctor Who after Season
Thirty-One, to be replaced with caretaker producer Sanne Wohlenberg. For the Comic Relief special Space / Time, Wohlenberg
was joined by Annabella Hurst-Brown.

Amy and Rory's Christmas honeymoon is interrupted when the spaceship on
which they're vacationing suddenly plummets through a maelstrom of fog
to the planet below. Miserly Kazran Sardick possesses a machine that can
control the fog and save the vessel, but he refuses to comes to its aid.
Determined to rescue not only his friends but all four thousand people
aboard the ship, the Doctor travels back in time on a mission to change
Kazran's life for the better... but only if he can navigate the shoals
of bitterness and heartbreak which have made Kazran the man he is
today.

Amy distracts Rory while he's helping the Doctor repair the TARDIS,
causing the time machine to materialise inside itself. Time and space
start to behave in mysterious ways, and the three travellers realise
that they may be trapped within the ship for all eternity.

Making History

On March 18th, 2010, at the press screening to launch the new season,
Piers Wenger confirmed that the tradition of the Doctor Who
Christmas special would continue into the era of the Eleventh
Doctor.

Doctor Who also resumed its strong connection with the BBC's
charity telethons. This time, a special two-part mini-adventure would
air during the Comic Relief appeal on March 18th, 2011 -- offering the
dual appeal of raising funds for a worthy cause and starting the
countdown towards the new season...

Season Thirty-Two (2011): Death Comes To
Time

Companions and Recurring Characters

A key figure in the religious order known as the Silence, Madame Kovarian sought the Doctor's death, and
chose to act against him by kidnapping the pregnant Amy Pond.

Sanne Wohlenberg remained with Doctor Who for just the first
production block of Season Thirty-Two (consisting of The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors). Marcus Wilson then took over the reins of the
programme on an ongoing basis.

Amy, Rory and River are summoned to the Utah desert, where they witness
the Doctor's murder at the hands of an astronaut who rises from a lake.
They learn that this is a future Doctor, whose final message directs
them to travel to 1969 with a younger version of himself. There they
meet ex-FBI agent Canton Delaware III and President Richard Nixon, who
is being haunted by phone calls from a mysterious child, warning of
alien invasion. But the aliens are already on Earth, unable to be
captured by human memory -- and even the Doctor's companions are not
immune.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves aboard a pirate ship in the
17th century. The ship has been becalmed for days, marooned in waters
that seem to be haunted by a Siren -- a beautiful but demonic woman who
comes for those who are sick or injured. She sings a mournful, unearthly
melody, and her arrival is presaged by the appearance on the victim's
skin of a livid black spot. When Rory is cut, he is marked as the
Siren's next victim, and it's up to the Doctor and the reluctant Captain
Avery to unearth the creature's true nature.

The Doctor receives a distress call from an old Time Lord friend,
summoning him to a place beyond the universe. Clinging to the hope that
there may still be Time Lord survivors, the Doctor pilots the TARDIS
through a rift, only to find his time machine suddenly lifeless. Landing
on a sentient planetoid called House, the Doctor discovers that he has
been lured into a trap. But as House tries to devour the TARDIS -- and
Amy and Rory along with it -- the Doctor finds an ally in Idris, a woman
with whom he shares a deep, personal and unexpected connection.

A solar storm forces the TARDIS to land on a tiny island on 22nd-century
Earth. There, a factory pumps out acid so corrosive that disposable,
artificial humans are created to do all the work, taking the form of the
real employees who control their doppelgangers remotely. These
“Gangers” have all the memories of the real humans, but
lose their sentience once the connection is broken... until the solar
storm causes the Gangers to stabilise. Now the Doctor finds himself
desperately trying to stop war from breaking out between the humans and
their Ganger selves.

Months ago, a newly-pregnant Amy was kidnapped by the Headless Monks and
their agent, the ruthless Madame Kovarian. Now she has given birth to
her daughter, Melody, who is to be taken away so that she can be used as
a weapon against the Doctor. But the Doctor and Rory have called in
favours and gathered a strike force to rescue Amy and Melody. Only River
Song refuses to heed the Doctor's summons. She knows that this is the
day of the Doctor's greatest victory, and his greatest defeat... and the
day that he will finally learn who she is.

The Doctor returns to Leadworth to update Amy and Rory on his search for
their daughter, Melody, only to have the TARDIS hijacked to 1938 Berlin
by Amy's friend Mels. But Mels is really a future version of Melody,
regenerated and brainwashed by the Silence into making an attempt on the
Doctor's life. And even as the Doctor hovers on the brink of death, a
new threat appears: a shapeshifting Justice Vehicle, sent back in time
and tasked with prosecuting Melody Pond for her ultimate crime -- the
murder of the Doctor.

The Doctor receives a plea via his psychic paper from a little boy on
Earth: “Please save me from the monsters.” He, Amy and Rory
follow the distress call and meet Alex, who explains that his son George
is seemingly afraid of everything -- especially the cupboard in his
bedroom. The Doctor tries to help, but quickly realises that there
really is something strange lurking in George's cupboard. And this
mysterious force has already trapped his companions in a macabre
dollhouse, stalked by sinister toys who seek to transform Amy and Rory
into their own kind.

The TARDIS lands on a planet ravaged by a plague which is fatal to
beings with two hearts. With the Doctor consigned to the Ship, his
companions become separated across two time streams which move at very
different rates. When the Doctor manages to synchronise the streams,
Rory finds himself confronted by an Amy who has waited thirty-six years
for rescue. As the Doctor tries desperately to put things right, a
still-young Rory finds himself confronted by an embittered Amy who may
no longer want to be saved.

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to what appears to be a hotel
on Earth in the 1980s. But the rooms and corridors in this hotel move
about, and the doors and windows open onto walls. Soon they encounter a
small band of human and alien survivors, and learn that somewhere in the
hotel is a room containing each person's darkest fear. Once they find
it, they will inevitably begin to worship a mysterious entity which
stalks the hotel, killing those who praise it. One by one, the hotel
claims its victims... and even Amy cannot resist its lure.

Having left Amy and Rory behind for their own safety as he prepares for
the end of his life, the Doctor pays a visit to Craig Owens. Craig is
now a father, struggling to bring up baby Alfie, and barely aware of the
strange events unfolding around him. People are going missing,
unexplained electrical surges plague the neighbourhood, and a mysterious
silver rat stalks the local shopping mall. Almost despite himself, Craig
helps the Doctor uncover the Cybermen and their Cybermats at work. But
is this an invasion, or something else?

The Doctor is destined to die on the shores of Lake Silencio, Utah, at
5.02pm on the 22nd of April, 2011. However, River Song refuses to let
history play out as it was intended, and inadvertently fractures time in
the process. The Doctor now finds himself on an Earth where all history
is happening simultaneously, and only a special few -- including Amy and
River -- remember time as it was meant to be. But even as the Silence
spring their final trap, the Doctor knows that in order to stop time
from disintegrating, he must still die at Lake Silencio...

Making History

Season Thirty-Two saw a wholesale change to the Doctor Who
broadcast schedule, with transmission being split into two halves to
avoid the summer months, when ratings traditionally dropped due to the
sunny weather. This was not novel for Doctor Who: in the past,
some seasons had taken an extended hiatus during the Christmas period.
But the length of the break -- eleven weeks -- was unprecedented, as was
the fact that the gap was integrated into the storyline, with A Good Man Goes To War ending on a
major cliffhanger.

Special (2011): Home For The
Holidays

Companions and Recurring Characters

Madge Arwell once rescued a gravely-injured
Doctor. Several years later, he attempted to return the favour by
visiting Madge and her children during a time of great personal
crisis.

Just days before Christmas 1941, Madge Arwell's airman husband is lost
over the English Channel. Dreading to tell the truth to her children,
Lily and Cyril, Madge takes them out of London to an old mansion house
owned by a distant relative. The caretaker of the estate turns out to be
the Doctor, whom Madge rescued from a crisis years earlier. He plans to
ease Madge's heartbreak by giving Lily and Cyril the merriest Christmas
ever. But when he opens a portal to a wintry alien wonderland in the far
future, the Doctor inadvertently places all of them in terrible danger.

Making History

At the Edinburgh International Television Festival on August 28th, 2010,
executive producer Steven Moffat confirmed that there would be a 2011
Christmas special.

Season Thirty-Three (2012-13): The
Impossible Girl

Companions and Recurring Characters

A nanny from modern-day London -- and later an English teacher at Coal
Hill School -- Clara Oswald was brought into
the Doctor's life as part of Missy's schemes, and later found herself
scattered throughout the Doctor's timestream as a result of the
machinations of the Great Intelligence.

Clara was played by Jenna Coleman (originally
credited as “Jenna-Louise Coleman”) from The Snowmen in December 2012 to Hell Bent in December 2015. She also
portrayed another version of Clara, called Oswin Oswald, in Asylum Of The Daleks in September
2012, and returned as a Testimony simulacrum in Twice Upon A Time in December
2017.

The daughter of Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart became UNIT's Chief
Scientific Officer, and renewed her family's close bond with the
Doctor.

Jemma Redgrave has played Kate on a recurring
basis since The Power Of Three
in September 2012.

One of the children for whom Clara was caring when she met the Doctor,
Angie Maitland discovered the truth about her
nanny's time-travelling adventures. She and her brother Artie used the
information to pressure the Doctor into taking them for a trip to the
future aboard the TARDIS... which inadvertently thrust them into a
confrontation with the Cybermen.

Piers Wenger departed the BBC -- and Doctor Who -- to become the
senior commissioning executive for Film4, leaving Doctor Who with
just two executive producers. For the last four episodes into
production, script producer Denise Paul was
promoted to full producer, with Marcus Wilson earning a series producer
credit on these stories.

Their relationship in tatters, Amy and Rory suddenly find themselves
kidnapped by the Daleks and reunited with the Doctor. They have been
brought together by the Emperor Dalek, who requires them to infiltrate a
prison planet called the Asylum which houses the insane outcasts of the
Dalek race. A spaceship has crashed there, offering a means of escape
for the millions of inmates. Furthermore, one passenger survived the
accident: a brilliant computer hacker named Oswin, for whom the Doctor
may be the only salvation from a world of crazed Daleks.

In 2367, Earth's security forces are on high alert as an unidentified
spaceship hurtles towards the planet. The Doctor assembles a team to
investigate, including the legendary Queen Nefertiti, a big game
hunter named Riddell, Amy, Rory... and, inadvertently, Rory's father
Brian. Materialising aboard the mystery ship, they're surprised to find
it populated by dinosaurs. With time running out before the ship is
blasted out of the sky, the Doctor must confront a vicious criminal
named Solomon, as the lives of his companions and the dinosaurs hang in
the balance.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Mercy, a frontier town in the Old
West being terrorised by a murderous cyborg. The cyborg is searching for
Kahler-Jex, an alien surgeon who took refuge in Mercy after his
spaceship crashed in the desert nearby. The townsfolk -- led by their
marshal, Isaac -- are determined to safeguard Kahler-Jex, but supplies
and morale are beginning to run low. And, as the Doctor uncovers the
sordid history between Kahler-Jex and the cyborg, he begins to realise
that, sometimes, the line between victim and monster is very blurry
indeed.

Amy and Rory awake one morning to find that the entire Earth is overrun
with little black cubes. The Doctor is already investigating, suspecting
an alien invasion, but the cubes are featureless and inert. Even the
assistance of Rory's father, Brian, and UNIT's Kate Stewart -- the
daughter of the Doctor's old friend, the Brigadier -- brings the Time
Lord no closer to solving the mystery. And as the Doctor's stay
stretches into weeks and then months, Amy and Rory are forced to
confront their own future as adventurers in time and space.

A restful stop for the TARDIS crew in modern-day Central Park becomes a
crisis when the Weeping Angels send Rory back to 1938. A pulp detective
novel suddenly begins narrating Rory's fate, providing the clues that
the Doctor and Amy need to come to the rescue. Reunited with River Song,
they discover that the Angels have overrun New York City and are using
it as an incubator for temporal energy, with Rory caught in the centre
of the trap. Only a paradox will defeat them, but to create one, the
Doctor may find himself separated from Amy and Rory forever...

The Weeping Angels send Amy and Rory back in time, beyond the reach of
the TARDIS.

London in 1892 is protected by three mysterious detectives: the Silurian
Madame Vastra -- the so-called “Lizard Woman of Paternoster
Row” -- as well as her wife Jenny and the dimwitted Sontaran
Strax. It is also home to a fourth enigma: the former traveller in time
and space known as the Doctor. But, unlike Vastra, Jenny and Strax, the
Doctor is no longer interested in defending the Earth...

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of old
allies such as Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax, he is determined to keep
out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled
upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of
her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr Simeon, who controls monsters
made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the
spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek
asylum...

All over the world, people are being found dead, slumped next to their
computers. What no one realises is that the victims' minds are being
harvested, uploaded through an insidious new wi-fi network run by Miss
Kizlet on behalf of a mysterious client. Using mobile robotic servers
called Spoonheads, Miss Kizlet's reach extends virtually everywhere --
and to almost everyone. Her latest victim is a young nanny named Clara
Oswald. But, fortunately, Clara is the same woman the Doctor has already
seen die twice... and he's determined not to lose her a third time.

Eager to unravel the mystery of Clara's existence, the Doctor invites
her to join him in the TARDIS.

The Doctor takes Clara to a market in the system of rings surrounding
the planet Akhaten, the gathering place for the people of many worlds.
All of them harbour a belief in the godlike “Grandfather”,
who must be appeased with song and story. Central to these rites is the
Queen of Years, a role currently filled by a frightened young girl named
Merry whom Clara befriends. But when the Queen of Years' ceremony goes
wrong, the Doctor's intervention reawakens an ancient power -- forcing
both time travellers to risk the things they treasure most.

The year is 1983, in the midst of the Cold War between the United States
and the Soviet Union. The TARDIS materialises aboard a Russian submarine
carrying Professor Grisenko, who is returning to Moscow with a creature
he has discovered entombed in a block of ice. Against Grisenko's wishes,
however, the creature is freed... and turns out to be Grand Marshal
Skaldak, an Ice Warrior who has lain frozen for five thousand years.
When the Russians react with fear and hostility, Skaldak declares war on
the human race -- and the Doctor must stop him from taking control of
the sub's nuclear arsenal.

The Doctor and Clara travel to Caliburn House in 1974. The owner of the
estate, Alec Palmer, is investigating the Witch of the Well, a ghost
which has stalked the halls of Caliburn House for centuries -- and whose
legend dates back to before the mansion was even constructed. To assist
him, he has recruited an empathic telepath named Emma Grayling, who can
sense the ghost's immense loneliness. The Doctor discovers that the
Witch of the Well is a mystery which transcends time and space -- and
that the ghost is not the only thing haunting Caliburn House.

Aware that his companion is uncomfortable around the TARDIS, the Doctor
sets the Ship into a low-power mode to help Clara get accustomed to her
new home. However, this inadvertently leaves the TARDIS vulnerable to an
intergalactic salvage vessel, whose attempts to seize the time machine
critically damage the interior. With time and space running amok inside
the TARDIS, the Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with the
salvage team in order to rescue Clara, and keep his ship's engine from
exploding.

In 1893 Yorkshire, Mrs Winifred Gillyflower and her disfigured daughter
warn of the impending doomsday, and recruit followers for a community
they have established called Sweetville. But something strange is afoot
in Sweetville: no one who moves there ever returns, and corpses have
been found floating downriver, their skin turned a hideous red. With the
body count rising, Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax are asked to
investigate Sweetville. But they soon discover that the latest victim of
the so-called “Crimson Horror” is none other than the
Doctor himself.

When she isn't travelling in the TARDIS, Clara is a nanny to Angie and
Artie. And when her two charges figure out that Clara has become a time
traveller, the Doctor agrees to take them on a trip to the future to
visit Hedgewick's World of Wonders. Unfortunately, when the TARDIS
lands, they discover that the legendary theme park has been all but
abandoned. Lurking in the shadows are the universe's last Cybermen, who
see the Doctor as the final hope for the survival of the Cyber race.
Soon, the Time Lord finds himself duelling with the Cyber Planner for
control of his very mind.

The Great Intelligence kidnaps Vastra, Jenny and Strax in order to lure
the Doctor to Trenzalore -- the planet which, at some point in his
future, will become his last resting place. There, the Doctor's timeline
is laid bare, enabling the Intelligence to travel back and undo every
good deed and heroic act the Doctor has ever accomplished. Soon, Jenny
is dead and Vastra is menaced by a newly warlike Strax. It falls to
Clara to sacrifice herself in order to restore her friend, save the
universe... and uncover the Doctor's darkest secret.

Making History

Like Season Thirty-Two, Doctor Who's thirty-third season saw its
broadcast split in two halves, with five episodes airing in the autumn
of 2012 and eight in the spring of 2013. As a result, the 2012 Christmas
special, The Snowmen, fell in
the middle of the season, as did The
Great Detective, a prequel story transmitted as part of the
BBC's Children In Need charity appeal. Season Thirty-Three also
marked the first season of Doctor Who to be comprised entirely of
self-contained episodes, although some plot threads continued to bind
the individual stories together.

Specials (2013): The Golden Age

Companions and Recurring Characters

A UNIT scientist working under Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Petronella Osgood also harboured a degree of
infatuation with the Doctor in all his many incarnations. Osgood was a
key part of the truce which was brokered in order to allow twenty
million Zygon refugees to live in secret on modern-day Earth. She and
her Zygon duplicate lived in harmony, neither acknowledging which was
the human and which was the alien. When one of the Osgoods was murdered
by Missy, the truce was destablised but -- thanks to the Doctor's
intervention -- peace was restored and there remain two Osgoods working
at UNIT and honouring the Time Lord's example.

Caroline Skinner left Doctor Who to join BBC Drama Production in
London. She was replaced on an interim basis for The Day Of The Doctor by Faith Penhale, BBC Wales Head of Drama. The new
permanent executive producer was Brian
Minchin, who came aboard in time for The Time Of The Doctor.

On the last day of the Time War, a man who refuses to call himself
“The Doctor” is faced with an appalling choice: in order to
end the bloodshed, he must use an ancient Time Lord weapon to slaughter
billions. Elsewhere, the Tenth Doctor hunts Zygons in Elizabethan
England, while in the present day, the Eleventh Doctor and Clara
investigate a mystery at an art gallery. All of these events become
intertwined, leading three incarnations of the same Time Lord to
confront the most terrible moment of their lives.

A message echoing through all of time and space emanates from the
farming village of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore. With the
assistance of Clara and Tasha Lem, pontiff of a mysterious religious
order, the Doctor discovers that the signal is a message from Gallifrey,
coming through a crack in time from another universe. Soon Trenzalore is
under siege from massed hordes of the Doctor's worst enemies, as the
spectre of the Time War is raised anew. Years pass into centuries, and
it seems that the last days of the Doctor's final life are destined to
be spent saving Christmas...

As the Doctor's final seconds tick away, the lost Time Lords bequeath
him a new cycle of regenerations.

Making History

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who, a special episode
was filmed in 3-D and simulcast to almost one hundred countries around
the world, including numerous movie theatres. The Day Of The Doctor focussed on
the Eleventh Doctor (with Clara), the Tenth Doctor and the War Doctor,
but featured cameo appearances by Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi, and used
archival footage to represent every Doctor. A month later, The Time Of The Doctor drew the
curtains on the both the anniversary celebrations and the Matt Smith
era. Smith's departure had been announced on June 1st, 2013.